 Icke has stated that the reptilians come from not only another planet but another dimension, the lower level of the fourth dimension (the "lower astral dimension"), the one nearest the physical world.From this dimension they control the planet, although just as fourth-dimensional reptilians control us, they in turn are controlled by a fifth dimension.Michael Barkun argues that Icke's introduction of different dimensions allowed him to skip awkward questions about how the reptilians got here.